Grand Theft Auto IV

Platforms

• PC

  Dec 02, 2008

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  8.1

  playscore

  9.4

  13 Critics

  7.0

  66.2K Players
• PlayStation 3

  Apr 29, 2008

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  8.9

  playscore

  9.7

  6 Critics

  8.8

  39.5K Players
• Xbox 360

  Apr 29, 2008

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  8.8

  playscore

  9.5

  6 Critics

  9.0

  407K Players

19 critic reviews · 85 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  Games Radar+

  10

  Like Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese, the creative minds at Rockstar have always had a love affair with the city of New York – it’s where their HQ is based and home of ex-pats Sam and Dan Houser. The result is that Liberty City is an occasionally breathtaking homage to their city d’amour, rich with detail and stylised interpretations of famous landmarks.

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  GameSpot

  9.0

  Grand Theft Auto IV is a game that, in spite of its technical shortcomings on the PC, you simply have to play. The single-player game, which you can still play long after you complete the story, is the series' best by far, and the multiplayer features are good enough that you'll likely have no problem finding people to play with for many months to come.

  Reviewed on PC, PS3, X360

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  Video Gamer

  10

  Providing you can put up with a fair amount of hassle to get the game running well and all the services you need to sign up to in order to play the game in the first place. The mouse and keyboard controls are great, the video editing suite is a brilliant bonus and the enhanced multiplayer is what the game really needed. There's no doubt about it. GTA 4 is one of the best games of the year and as such one of the best we've ever played.

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  IGN

  9.2

  The PC version comes with a few added features, such as online filters for finding matches, the ability to save clips and edit them together, added graphics and control options, as well as a larger player capacity in some of the multiplayer modes. Though you'll need a high-powered system to truly experience the PC version's enhanced visuals, Liberty City is still a wonder to behold.

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  Destructoid

  8.0

  As a game, it is flawed in many aspects, but as an immersing experience, GTA IV is simply unparalleled. Its problems cannot and should not be overlooked, but none of them break the game, and there is just so much charm packed into the thing that you can't stay mad for long. Sure, just clipping a police car and having it turn into a chase that takes you far away from your intended target is an abominable frustration, but soon, like a puppy that's just shit in your shoes, the game will do something completely adorable to make you put down your beating stick and take it out for a walk.

  Reviewed on X360

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  Giant Bomb

  10

  Rather than try to out-do the Crackdowns and the Saints Rows of the world with bigger land masses and more missions, Rockstar went the other way, and managed to craft an amazingly impactful story and weave it into an open-world game in an incredibly meaningful way--all without losing the heart and soul of what makes Grand Theft Auto so popular in the first place. The end result is absolutely masterful and absolutely worth your time and money.

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  IGN

  10

  Grand Theft Auto IV is just as big a leap forward, though perhaps in subtler ways, and sets a new benchmark for open-world games. Everything in GTA IV works in harmony. The story would be nothing without the city; the city gains realism from the physics engine; the physics complement the improved AI; the AI would make no sense without the new cover system. And on and on. There is no one major weak aspect.

  Reviewed on PS3, X360

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  VGChartz

  9.0

  GTA IV is a sore spot for many people who have and have not played it. It strayed away from the GTA silliness that had become the norm and went for a more realistic world. This has led many to label GTA IV as a disappointment, and while it is disappointing to those who wanted another San Andreas, it is still a fantastic game that should not be missed. The refined shooting mechanics, amazing attention to detail, and robust online multiplayer help to really move the series forward, but the disappointing visuals, technical issues, and some aspects of gameplay that could have used a bit more tweaking keep it from perfection.

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  Euro Gamer

  9.0

  But seriously: a genuinely ground-breaking blockbuster in videogame history. There were moments playing GTA IV that I thought back to my initial experiences with games, and realised exactly how far we've come. There's never been anything quite like GTA IV in the world. That there makes me genuinely happy to be a gamer.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Game Watcher

  9.3

  Ultimately, there is just too much to tell about GTA IV; it’s a game that should be experienced firsthand, rather than explained. There are minor discrepancies between both the PS3 and 360 versions with load times a bit shorter and pop-in less frequent on the PS3, and reportedly exclusive content on the way for the 360; but no matter how you look at it, you can’t go wrong with either version of the game—though there has been reported issues with the PS3 version online./9916#sthash.Bq83rp3u.dpuf

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